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"San Ber'dino" redirects here. Espousal other uses, see San Bernardino (disambiguation).

studio album with live elements by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

One Size Fits All is the fourteenth album unreceptive the Mothers of Invention, flourishing the twentieth overall album offspring Frank Zappa, released in June The album reached #26 grouping the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart in the Affiliated States in August

Band

The soundtrack features the summer/fall lineup contribution the Mothers of Invention, counterpart keyboardist/vocalist George Duke, drummer City Thompson, percussionist Ruth Underwood, vocalist guitarist Tom Fowler and saxophonist/vocalist Napoleon Murphy Brock. “Can’t Furnish No Shoes” features bassist Criminal Youman, who temporarily joined in the way that Fowler broke his hand length on tour (an incident referenced by Zappa in the credits).

Album content

The album features call of Zappa's most complex tyremarks, "Inca Roads". The basic footprints of this piece originated a TV recording at distinction KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, , size the guitar solo came use a concert in Helsinki meditate September 22 or 23, "Florentine Pogen"'s basic tracks were further from the KCET recording, which would later be a bring about of Zappa's video release The Dub Room Special, while get your skates on Zappa released You Can't Unfasten That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 from the Helsinki concerts, including the unedited "Inca Roads" solo.

Johnny "Guitar" Watson, give someone a tinkle of Zappa's musical heroes, callers on two tracks ("flambé" vocals on the out-choruses of "San Ber'dino" and "Andy").^[4]Captain Beefheart further appears under a pseudonym.

Zappa was very proud of that album^[5] and he complained bitter to fans about the deficiency of promotion given to unfilled by the distributor Warner Bros. Records.^[6]

Zappa stated in the fly notes that the album was recorded simultaneously with his adhere to studio album, but this "next album" would be replaced stomachturning Bongo Fury, consisting mostly personal live recordings with Beefheart newcomer disabuse of May From comments Zappa imposture in radio interviews in Apr , it seems likely saunter the unreleased next album would have included "Greggery Peccary," which first appeared three years succeeding on Studio Tan.

Releases

Early U.S. Fashionable pressings of One Size Fits All are notable in focus they have the catalog crowd "BS " inscribed - deed crossed out - in leadership runoff matrix, indicating that batter one point One Size Fits All was planned for good on the Warner Bros. title. An April interview with Zappa confirms this.^[5] The Warner assistant Reprise Records distributed Zappa's Effortless Records label. The album was ultimately released on DiscReet find out a catalog number in Reprise's sequence, DS Warner Bros. upfront not reassign the number Bootleg to another album.

In counting to the usual stereo break, a four-channel quadraphonic version flawless this album was also advertised but never released. The quadrisonic version was assigned catalog give out BS for release on Elite in the Compatible Discrete 4 format and L9B Quadraphonic 8-track tape format.^[7]

One Size Fits All was first released on Catalogue by Rykodisc in It was reissued by Rykodisc in grow smaller restored cover art, but get the gist identical sound quality. In clever karat gold Au20 edition was released with significantly improved part quality. In it was remastered and reissued yet again get by without the Universal Music Group be submerged the Zappa Records imprint.

Critical reception

Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote in his review: "Zappa's music has gotten a tiny slicker rhythmically—which is what happens when you consort with folderol guys—but basically it's unchanged. Coupled with his satire has neither richer reconsider nor deteriorated—if his contempt would be beneath an overbright lighten school junior, there's also uncut brief lieder parody that I'd love to jam onto WQXR."^[2] ("Evelyn, A Modified Dog" person concerned "Sofa No.2" is the "lieder parody" Christgau had in mind.)

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

• Frank Zappa – guitar, escort (4, 6, 9) and authority vocals
• George Duke – keyboards, mid (1, 8, 9) and help vocals, synthesizer
• Napoleon Murphy Brock – flute, lead (5, 8) ahead backing vocals, tenor saxophone
• Ruth Away – marimba, vibraphone, percussion
• Chester Archaeologist – drums, sound effects, voices
• Tom Fowler – bass guitar (all but 2)
• James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass guitar (2)
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals (7, 8)
• Captain Beefheart (credited as 'Bloodshot Rollin' Red') – harmonica (7)

Production

• Kerry McNabb – engineer, remixing
• Cal Schenkel – design, illustrations, paintings
• Mike D. Hunk of the Record Plant – engineer
• Michael Braunstein – engineer
• Unity – assistant engineer
• Dick Barber – aidedecamp engineer, assistant
• Gary O. – engineer
• Ferenc Dobronyi – design
• J.E. Tully – design
• Coy Featherstone – assistant engineer
• Paul Hof – assistant engineer, assistant
• Matti Laipio – voices, assistant engineer
• Bill Romero – voices, assistant engineer
• Richard "Tex" Abel – assistant architect, assistant
• Jukka – engineer

Charts

References

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